Comparisons with other registers have yet to be made to verify that residents have not been evacuated or placed in shelters.

2,500 people are still missing in the Bahamas more than a week after the devastating passage of Hurricane Dorian, which killed at least 50 people, the archipelago emergency services said on Tuesday.

Cross-checks not yet done

"At present, about 2,500 people are registered on the government's missing persons registry," said Carl Smith, representative of the Bahamian Emergency Agency (NEMA), saying the list was "not still compared to government records of people in shelters or who have been evacuated. "